How to access dell recovery partition?

Question

How to access dell recovery partition?

Answer 1

Dell Recovery Partition

Answer 2

Install again your windows

Recovery windows whit Advanced Boot Recovery :

1. Turn on your notebook,pres F8 first to enter the windows operating system

2. Choose "repair your computer" and pres Enter

3. Choose language and keyboard from "system recovery option"box

4. Input user-name and password

5. Choose reinstall windows

6. Recovery system will re-install the windows using recovery image that placed on recovery partition

7. It's automatically create a new profile after the installation completed....

Or go to bios for recovery whit boot CD or DVD-ROM..change the notebook configuration to booting from CD - Insert MC windows CD Installation to the CDROM / DVD / CDRW - Starting windows - setting the language then press next - Click Install

NB : Look in screenshot,after clean install chose custom (advance) you will see about partition drive(C,D,E)and you will be given the option to reimage your drive

Answer 3

You installed Win 7 on the recovery partition, it's gone!

Your only option is to buy a CD/DVD of your preferred Windows and install that.

You will have to get the drivers for your model from Dell support, I suggest you do that before installing.



http://support.dell.com/ ☺

Answer 4

there must be one CD which is provided by dell along with your PC proberly it is named recovory or any other cd's along with option called recovory. you can run it.

Answer 5

Hi

having reformatted the hard drive you have wiped out the recovery partition of the disk.

so the best and only way would be to take this and the software along to a tech he /she would then reinstall it all and give you back the recovery partition if you explain that is what you want.

Answer 6

if the partition is gone , then you cannot do a restore



when you installed W7 it probably treated the hard drive as different

using AF(large disk sectors) this would mean any existing data would be

scrambled and ignored so the drive would be treated as BLANK.

therefore the WHOLE disk would have been used for your C: drive.



You need Dell Recovery Media which YOU should have CREATED using the

DELL utilities BEFORE YOU INSTALLED W7.



now you need to go and buy a DELL recovery disk





you can try the options listed in the DELL link below but the chances are

your NON dell windows 7 wont have any of the DELL facilities to do that.

Answer 7

First installing win 7 should not have deleted your recovery software. It is usually held in a hidden partition, so unless your directed the install away from "C" drive you will be o.k



As far as I am aware the Ctrl+F11 is not the correct method for a Dell Inspiration and F8 at the correct time is.



Look at the following Dell web page



http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/kcs/document?&docid=DSN_353562&isLegacy=true

Answer 8

once u formatted, the drive it gone, u don't have to format, just say no, & did u know u loss space on ur hard drive with formatting, sorry, now I use Recuva for recovering lost data, but don't think it will work ..if this helped pass it along

Answer 9

try to hit f8 on bios when it comes up hit repair computer then when it comes up there should be a choice that say s restore pc. should be the last choice. then say. restore to factory settings that's the only way I would know how other then what you have done

Answer 10

You may want to give that a try, but in the event that it doesn’t work for you then you can access your Dell’s recovery partition by pressing Ctrl+F11 when the machine is first turned on. The appropriate time to do this is almost immediately after the power button is pressed. A small message is usually displayed that offers to let you enter the BIOS (usually F2 on newer Dells) or go to the boot menu (F8 or F10, I think; it displays the appropriate key to press).

So, assuming that the partition that the recovery image is saved to hasn’t been deleted for some reason, or that the master boot record hasn’t been altered from the factory settings then the Dell System Recovery software will load and you will be given the option to reimage your drive. Their software is basically just a rebranded version of Norton’s Ghost or some other similar imaging software